The digital agenda is the new way to plan your days, weeks and months. When you plan digitally, you save money, paper, clutter, and time. When you start planning your time on iPad, you may feel a little overwhelmed by the number of options you have at your disposal. Therefore, we are going to see how to use your iPad as an agenda.
A digital agenda is the determining factor between organization and pure chaos. They are also a source of calm: an outlet for creativity, free thoughts and future plans. Go for it!
Turn the iPad into a digital agenda
The good news is that paperless planners are here to stay and change the game. We can use applications like Good Notes 5, Notability, Noteshelf or Xodo, for example.
In general, they have very similar aspects between them and also with paper agendas, with organization by days and weeks, in addition to other additional advantages, such as not generating more waste, they do not take up more space...
They are extremely useful tools that will make your planning much easier. They are also very customizable, it is easy to create unique pages, while you prepare your productivity week or your summer trip. It's true that it takes a little getting used to, but I promise you it's worth it.
Using a digital agenda will make your life much easier, regardless of how old you are, because Outline Planner (another option we have available) It has users between 20 and 80 years old, and they are parents, students, entrepreneurs, health professionals or business owners.
As an added bonus, we can easily save everything to iCloud so you reduce the risk of losing essential notes, and share notes with your remote team with ease.
How to choose the right planner
One of the best aspects of digital planners is the wide range of availability and customization. You may no longer have to buy a planner for home, work and personal as you can choose an all-in-one digital planner. And you won't have to search for an hour to find that sticker you need anymore, because now you can keep them all in one place using a digital sticker book!
Start by listing all the things you would like your planner to include so you have a good idea of what to look for. Some points may be:
- Monthly summary or weekly overviews
- Daily Habit and Schedule Trackers
How to use a digital agenda
This step may be the most intimidating, but it doesn't have to be that way.
- First you must have an iPad, which works correctly, and with a large enough screen and good storage.
- As I always say, andThe iPad's best companion is the Apple Pencil, Just make sure you choose the version of Apple Pencil that suits your iPad. If you have questions, you can read this article about it. iPad and Apple Pencil which I wrote a few days ago.
- Now, choose the best agenda that best suits your needs, GoodNotes, Notability, Noteshelf, Outline Planner or Xodo are excellent options. You can also try for a few days, since almost all of them offer a free trial period, so you can better see which one suits your lifestyle.
Explore all the details and aspects of your new digital planner and start adding all the details. You can use custom fonts or even decorate them by adding digital stickers.
The advantages of a digital agenda
All great products have pros and cons so it is essential to learn about them and make the right decision.
- You can save everything in one planner: from life at home to work and your leisure trips
- Digital planners are very forgiving, so you can easily erase any mistakes you make
- Organize and reorganize as much as you want: Digital planners allow you to move your content, even if you've written it by hand. Simply select it, drag it to another location on the same page, or copy and paste it to another page
- You never lose your information: It is very easy to save copies of your digital agenda, both locally and in iCloud or third-party options, and thus have access to your digital agenda from anywhere in the world and from almost any device.
- You can decorate the pages, add stickers and organize tabs. If you're in love with stylish fonts, you can learn how to install custom fonts on iPad before using them within your digital planner.
- We can also experience the same sensation that we have when working with real paper. If you like to write with a pen or pencil, using a device like an Apple Pencil to write in your digital planner will allow you to maintain that pen-to-paper feel. To improve your experience you can use a paper-like screen protector
- Extremely portable: It only gets as heavy as your iPad, so it's important to know which iPad to choose for this task.
- Environmentally friendly: a digital planner lets you save some trees without paper
- Easy to share with others. You can easily share and send your planner to others using the planner's sharing features. You can share images of your agenda, parts or the entire agenda as a PDF file.
- It suits you, if you like to write at night, you can always use dark mode.
- Allows you to zoom – great if you struggle to read smaller letters.
The cons of a digital agenda
All great products have pros and cons so it is essential to learn about them and make the right decision.
- Need charging: The iPad battery takes time to discharge, it is true, but a paper agenda, as long as you have it on hand, will be available to write on.
- Does not sync with digital calendars, It is true that we can do it manually, or look for alternatives, but as a general rule, natively, it does not synchronize with calendars like Google Calendar. Unfortunately, your events won't sync with Outlook either.
- Many calendar apps are paid, Normally a single payment. While it is a disadvantage, it is true that these apps also have other added functions.
- Size depends on iPad: The size of your pages will depend on the size of your tablet.